Edible Perennial Gardening

Edible Perennial Gardening explains everything you need to know to start your own domestic polyculture garden, including the foundations of permaculture, polyculture design, and managing perennial plants. This rich resource will teach you how to maximize on limited space while growing food for your household and saving you money.

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Do you dream of a low-maintenance perennial garden that is full to the brim of perennial vegetables that you don’t have to keep replanting, but have only a small space? Do you want a garden that doesn’t take much of your time and that needs little attention to control the pests and diseases that eat your crops? Do you want to grow unusual vegetable varieties? You can have all of this with Edible Perennial Gardening.
Anni Kelsey has meticulously researched the little-known subject of edible perennials and selected her favorite, tasty varieties. She explains how to source and propagate different vegetables, which plants work well together in polycultures, and what you can plant in small, shady, or semi shady beds, as well as in sunny areas. It includes:
• Getting started and basic principles
• Permaculture, forest gardening, and natural farming
• Growing in polycultures
• How to chose suitable leafy greens, alliums, roots, tubers, and herbs
• Site selection and preparation
• Building fertility
• Low-maintenance management strategies
If you long for a forest garden but simply don’t have the space for tree crops, or want to grow a low-maintenance edible polyculture, this book will explain everything you need to know to get started on a new gardening adventure that will provide you with beauty and food for your household and save you money.
Copyright 2014, softcover, 176 pages

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